Sample Sentences forclergy (editor-reviewed)
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She was surprised to hear a member of the clergy talk like that.clergy = formal religious leaders
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Under labor law, the clergy can be required to uphold the beliefs of the religion they have chosen.clergy = paid religious leaders
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Mark and Jim met the clergy at Gilford village. (source)clergy = formal religious leadership (in Christianity)
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She was looking clean as clergy. (source)clergy = religious leaders
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You haven't mentioned the clergy, either.† (source)
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Duc is an ordained member of the Buddhist clergy, a monastic who lives a meditative life of poverty.† (source)
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Simon is a little surprised: surely it is the duty of the clergy to encourage pious eyewash.† (source)
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If there had been a huge crowd yesterday, today's hearing had brought more people, including several clergy members and older people of color I'd never seen before.† (source)
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The minister he was assisting, he wrote, had turned the parish calling over to him: it was a wealthy congregation and large contributors expected frequent and unhurried visits from the clergy.† (source)
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So unless circumstances of death or critical illness require you to travel to Paris this afternoon, and unless you can supply information establishing the critical emergency such as an affidavit with attending physician, clergy, or funeral director —† (source)
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His special targets were Baby Kochamma's guests—Catholic bishops or visiting clergy—who often dropped by for a snack.† (source)
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Padre de Jesus and Brother Daniel had been down in the capital throughout July conferring with other clergy.† (source)
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Maycomb's regular pastors ate free for a week also, and it was hinted in disrespectful quarters that the local clergy deliberately led their churches into holding separate services, thereby gaining two more weeks' honoraria.† (source)
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Not only were they eminently respectable, these were figures who held real influence in British life: politicians, diplomats, military men, clergy.† (source)
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They ran the three churches to which they belonged, the clergy, the choirs and the parishioners.† (source)
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We charged in cheerfully, relieved the policeman, and were just falling upon the main body of the enemy when we came into collision with a party of local clergy and town councilors who arrived simultaneously by another route to try persuasion.† (source)
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